Calendar of Events in St. Louis

There's nothing like enjoying the music of our Grammy-snagging St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in its native environs, Powell Hall. But the symphony plays occasionally at other venues, too, and tonight's Symphony in Your College event is an example of this wayfaring. Bosnian Journeys: Generations features SLSO musicians and is performed at Washington University. Produced in collaboration with... Read more about this event >>

American artist Vija Celmins displays her love of the natural world (the night sky, the desert floor, the ocean) in her magnificently dense drawings. By honing in on a small corner of these natural spaces and meticulously rendering them in a modest scale Celmins turns reality into an impossibility, making real world scenery both unreal and overwhelming. Celmins' purposeful mark making breaks... Read more about this event >>

Let's pick an especially isolated, remote country such as Bhutan and ask ourselves what we know about it. Zilch, comes the response. Through Regina DeLuise's stunning photography we can at least get acquainted. Vast Bhutan: Images from the Phenomenal World showcases photos DeLuise took on a visit to the landlocked Asian nation in 2010. Bhutan is completely immersed in Buddhist history and... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>

New York may be the epicenter of the contemporary American art scene, but that doesn't mean it's the only place artists are at work today. Philadelphia Freedom: A Survey of Abstract Painting Today from the City of Brotherly Love, the new show at Philip Slein Gallery, features work by five painters from cheesesteak-ylvania. Each has their own approach to the abstract school. Tim McFarlane uses... Read more about this event >>

Everything on display at Duane Reed Gallery is tattered, torn and broken. But that's by design -- the group exhibition Breaks, Seams and Boundaries explores the application of carefully controlled forces to transform familiar artistic forms into something new and surprising. The graceful curve of Steven Young Lee's Moon Jar with Octopi erupts outward in shards on one side, apparently rent by... Read more about this event >>

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries' long-standing reputation for championing the visual and performing arts in St. Louis has prompted an awe-inspiring donation -- a treasure trove of more than 2,500 exotic jazz, folk, ceremonial and indigenous musical instruments, including bizarre hybrids such as the Saxotrumpet and a must-be-seen-to-be-believed soprano slide saxophone. The Sheldon... Read more about this event >>

The Winslows are an upstanding, upper-class English family shaken by a seemingly minor scandal: Youngest son Ronnie has been expelled from naval college for stealing five pounds. Ronnie swears his innocence, and his father Arthur believes him; so much so that he fights for Ronnie's right to a fair trial by hiring a famous barrister to represent Ronnie against the British Admiralty. While his... Read more about this event >>

Tell the winter doldrums adios by escaping to the Tropical Conservatory at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Every day throughout March, you can see the giant, gorgeous, brilliantly blue morpho butterflies. These winged lovelies visit every year as part of March Morpho Mania. Stroll among thousands of these butterflies, as they dart and dive and perhaps, if you're lucky, alight on your... Read more about this event >>

From its humble beginnings as S&M Twilight fan fiction, Fifty Shades Of Grey has taken the world by storm. 50 Shades! The Musical Parody rides that storm of bondage for intentional laughs. The musical sings the familiar story of liberation through domination with songs that leave nothing to the imagination, such as "Open Your Book," "How Much Can I Take" and "Hole Inside Of Me." The touring... Read more about this event >>

From the 2013 RFT Music awards: DJ Mahf works from some place in his brain that pumps out enough enthusiasm to make his work look easy. Performing with a chilled zeal, the Indyground DJ interplays dense minutes of thumping samples with crackling movie clips and fine-tuned, one-and-two-handed scratches. He has already banged around Kansas City's spirited Middle of the Map Festival with... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

The art of being a woman goes beyond having a seemingly balanced life both in and out the home. Reimagining Femmage, the new exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre, is built around the feminist art movement "femmage" -- collage-style work created by women that focuses on both the inner life and the outward impression. Juried by Contemporary Art Museum's Lisa Melandri, the show includes work by 47... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

Fashions in art, like fashions in anything, are fickle -- so it's usually best to pay them no mind. For instance, in John Constable's lifetime he was openly ridiculed for the perceived aesthetic faux pas of painting humble rural scenes. A similar dismal misapprehension of real talent befell Thomas Cole, titan of unrepentant landscape studies and the founder of the Hudson River School. Thomas... Read more about this event >>

George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia but made his name here in St. Louis. The painter earned a living from his portraits (and various political jobs, such as serving as the State Treasurer), but it's his paintings of frontier life on the river that secured his lasting fame. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum,... Read more about this event >>

"Graphic novel" is virtually synonymous with "comic book" at this point, but author Martin Villeneuve redefined the term with his Mars et Avril series, which blends the written word with narrative photos enacted by Quebec's theater and art luminaries. In 2012, Villeneuve completed a cinematic adaptation of his own work, with the part of Avril played by Caroline Dhavernas of the Hannibal... Read more about this event >>

The art of being a woman goes beyond having a seemingly balanced life both in and out the home. Reimagining Femmage, the new exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre, is built around the feminist art movement "femmage" -- collage-style work created by women that focuses on both the inner life and the outward impression. Juried by Contemporary Art Museum's Lisa Melandri, the show includes work by 47... Read more about this event >>

The ever-popular Phantom of the Opera returns to St. Louis in an extravagantly updated production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved classic about a lovelorn, mutilated musical genius who lurks beneath the Paris Opera. As this Phantom's passion deepens, he descends further into madness with tragic results. Although the "Music of the Night" remains relatively the same, Cameron Mackintosh's... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>

Tell the winter doldrums adios by escaping to the Tropical Conservatory at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Every day throughout March, you can see the giant, gorgeous, brilliantly blue morpho butterflies. These winged lovelies visit every year as part of March Morpho Mania. Stroll among thousands of these butterflies, as they dart and dive and perhaps, if you're lucky, alight on your... Read more about this event >>

Fashions in art, like fashions in anything, are fickle -- so it's usually best to pay them no mind. For instance, in John Constable's lifetime he was openly ridiculed for the perceived aesthetic faux pas of painting humble rural scenes. A similar dismal misapprehension of real talent befell Thomas Cole, titan of unrepentant landscape studies and the founder of the Hudson River School. Thomas... Read more about this event >>

To walk into the Hideaway is to enter a place that seems frozen in time, where the dozen or so seats around the piano are packed with your grandparents' friends, decked out in chunky jewelry and tilted fedora hats. Ostensibly, they're here to listen to Mark Dew play — he's here Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights — but you're just as likely to hear one of those... Read more about this event >>

American artist Vija Celmins displays her love of the natural world (the night sky, the desert floor, the ocean) in her magnificently dense drawings. By honing in on a small corner of these natural spaces and meticulously rendering them in a modest scale Celmins turns reality into an impossibility, making real world scenery both unreal and overwhelming. Celmins' purposeful mark making breaks... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

New York may be the epicenter of the contemporary American art scene, but that doesn't mean it's the only place artists are at work today. Philadelphia Freedom: A Survey of Abstract Painting Today from the City of Brotherly Love, the new show at Philip Slein Gallery, features work by five painters from cheesesteak-ylvania. Each has their own approach to the abstract school. Tim McFarlane uses... Read more about this event >>

Let's pick an especially isolated, remote country such as Bhutan and ask ourselves what we know about it. Zilch, comes the response. Through Regina DeLuise's stunning photography we can at least get acquainted. Vast Bhutan: Images from the Phenomenal World showcases photos DeLuise took on a visit to the landlocked Asian nation in 2010. Bhutan is completely immersed in Buddhist history and... Read more about this event >>

If you think of Fulton, it's most likely in connection to the famous speech Winston Churchill delivered at Westminster College in 1946. But there's more. Outsider artist star Jesse Howard is also associated with Fulton. Howard was a self-taught artist and an earnest evangelist, and from such ingredients a strange brew will always ferment. A new exhibition, Thy Kingdom Come, showcases Howard's... Read more about this event >>

From its humble beginnings as S&M Twilight fan fiction, Fifty Shades Of Grey has taken the world by storm. 50 Shades! The Musical Parody rides that storm of bondage for intentional laughs. The musical sings the familiar story of liberation through domination with songs that leave nothing to the imagination, such as "Open Your Book," "How Much Can I Take" and "Hole Inside Of Me." The touring... Read more about this event >>

Everything on display at Duane Reed Gallery is tattered, torn and broken. But that's by design -- the group exhibition Breaks, Seams and Boundaries explores the application of carefully controlled forces to transform familiar artistic forms into something new and surprising. The graceful curve of Steven Young Lee's Moon Jar with Octopi erupts outward in shards on one side, apparently rent by... Read more about this event >>

Under the direction of William N. Eisendrath, Jr., the Washington University Gallery of Art acquired a treasure trove of seminal modern work from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse in the '60s. Eisendrath is credited with introducing this brave, bold generation of abstract artists to the contemporary St. Louis art scene, and the museum even went on to sponsor... Read more about this event >>

The Winslows are an upstanding, upper-class English family shaken by a seemingly minor scandal: Youngest son Ronnie has been expelled from naval college for stealing five pounds. Ronnie swears his innocence, and his father Arthur believes him; so much so that he fights for Ronnie's right to a fair trial by hiring a famous barrister to represent Ronnie against the British Admiralty. While his... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia but made his name here in St. Louis. The painter earned a living from his portraits (and various political jobs, such as serving as the State Treasurer), but it's his paintings of frontier life on the river that secured his lasting fame. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum,... Read more about this event >>

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries' long-standing reputation for championing the visual and performing arts in St. Louis has prompted an awe-inspiring donation -- a treasure trove of more than 2,500 exotic jazz, folk, ceremonial and indigenous musical instruments, including bizarre hybrids such as the Saxotrumpet and a must-be-seen-to-be-believed soprano slide saxophone. The Sheldon... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

"Cupid, please hear my cry/and let your arrow fly/straight to my lover's heart for me..." The way Sam Cooke sings those lines brings a rush of chills every time. Cooke's bravura melodic agility, his phrasing, pitch, and the incomparable timbre of that unstoppable voice all add up to one outcome: vocal perfection. Sam was, and forever is, the Man. St. Louisan Brian Owens underscores this... Read more about this event >>

Under the direction of William N. Eisendrath, Jr., the Washington University Gallery of Art acquired a treasure trove of seminal modern work from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse in the '60s. Eisendrath is credited with introducing this brave, bold generation of abstract artists to the contemporary St. Louis art scene, and the museum even went on to sponsor... Read more about this event >>

The Winslows are an upstanding, upper-class English family shaken by a seemingly minor scandal: Youngest son Ronnie has been expelled from naval college for stealing five pounds. Ronnie swears his innocence, and his father Arthur believes him; so much so that he fights for Ronnie's right to a fair trial by hiring a famous barrister to represent Ronnie against the British Admiralty. While his... Read more about this event >>

Everything on display at Duane Reed Gallery is tattered, torn and broken. But that's by design -- the group exhibition Breaks, Seams and Boundaries explores the application of carefully controlled forces to transform familiar artistic forms into something new and surprising. The graceful curve of Steven Young Lee's Moon Jar with Octopi erupts outward in shards on one side, apparently rent by... Read more about this event >>

The ever-popular Phantom of the Opera returns to St. Louis in an extravagantly updated production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved classic about a lovelorn, mutilated musical genius who lurks beneath the Paris Opera. As this Phantom's passion deepens, he descends further into madness with tragic results. Although the "Music of the Night" remains relatively the same, Cameron Mackintosh's... Read more about this event >>

Fashions in art, like fashions in anything, are fickle -- so it's usually best to pay them no mind. For instance, in John Constable's lifetime he was openly ridiculed for the perceived aesthetic faux pas of painting humble rural scenes. A similar dismal misapprehension of real talent befell Thomas Cole, titan of unrepentant landscape studies and the founder of the Hudson River School. Thomas... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>

George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia but made his name here in St. Louis. The painter earned a living from his portraits (and various political jobs, such as serving as the State Treasurer), but it's his paintings of frontier life on the river that secured his lasting fame. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum,... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

New York may be the epicenter of the contemporary American art scene, but that doesn't mean it's the only place artists are at work today. Philadelphia Freedom: A Survey of Abstract Painting Today from the City of Brotherly Love, the new show at Philip Slein Gallery, features work by five painters from cheesesteak-ylvania. Each has their own approach to the abstract school. Tim McFarlane uses... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

If you think of Fulton, it's most likely in connection to the famous speech Winston Churchill delivered at Westminster College in 1946. But there's more. Outsider artist star Jesse Howard is also associated with Fulton. Howard was a self-taught artist and an earnest evangelist, and from such ingredients a strange brew will always ferment. A new exhibition, Thy Kingdom Come, showcases Howard's... Read more about this event >>

American artist Vija Celmins displays her love of the natural world (the night sky, the desert floor, the ocean) in her magnificently dense drawings. By honing in on a small corner of these natural spaces and meticulously rendering them in a modest scale Celmins turns reality into an impossibility, making real world scenery both unreal and overwhelming. Celmins' purposeful mark making breaks... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries' long-standing reputation for championing the visual and performing arts in St. Louis has prompted an awe-inspiring donation -- a treasure trove of more than 2,500 exotic jazz, folk, ceremonial and indigenous musical instruments, including bizarre hybrids such as the Saxotrumpet and a must-be-seen-to-be-believed soprano slide saxophone. The Sheldon... Read more about this event >>

For more than two decades, The Jerry Springer Show has been a source of controversy in America, but nothing compares to the response it got in England. Jerry Springer: The Opera played across the United Kingdom to rave reviews and unprecedented protests, culminating in a BBC 2 airing that elicited an incredible 55,000 complaints. The musical, which is wall-to-wall singing and dancing, begins... Read more about this event >>

Tell the winter doldrums adios by escaping to the Tropical Conservatory at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Every day throughout March, you can see the giant, gorgeous, brilliantly blue morpho butterflies. These winged lovelies visit every year as part of March Morpho Mania. Stroll among thousands of these butterflies, as they dart and dive and perhaps, if you're lucky, alight on your... Read more about this event >>

Let's pick an especially isolated, remote country such as Bhutan and ask ourselves what we know about it. Zilch, comes the response. Through Regina DeLuise's stunning photography we can at least get acquainted. Vast Bhutan: Images from the Phenomenal World showcases photos DeLuise took on a visit to the landlocked Asian nation in 2010. Bhutan is completely immersed in Buddhist history and... Read more about this event >>

The art of being a woman goes beyond having a seemingly balanced life both in and out the home. Reimagining Femmage, the new exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre, is built around the feminist art movement "femmage" -- collage-style work created by women that focuses on both the inner life and the outward impression. Juried by Contemporary Art Museum's Lisa Melandri, the show includes work by 47... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

For more than two decades, The Jerry Springer Show has been a source of controversy in America, but nothing compares to the response it got in England. Jerry Springer: The Opera played across the United Kingdom to rave reviews and unprecedented protests, culminating in a BBC 2 airing that elicited an incredible 55,000 complaints. The musical, which is wall-to-wall singing and dancing, begins... Read more about this event >>

Under the direction of William N. Eisendrath, Jr., the Washington University Gallery of Art acquired a treasure trove of seminal modern work from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse in the '60s. Eisendrath is credited with introducing this brave, bold generation of abstract artists to the contemporary St. Louis art scene, and the museum even went on to sponsor... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>

New York may be the epicenter of the contemporary American art scene, but that doesn't mean it's the only place artists are at work today. Philadelphia Freedom: A Survey of Abstract Painting Today from the City of Brotherly Love, the new show at Philip Slein Gallery, features work by five painters from cheesesteak-ylvania. Each has their own approach to the abstract school. Tim McFarlane uses... Read more about this event >>

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries' long-standing reputation for championing the visual and performing arts in St. Louis has prompted an awe-inspiring donation -- a treasure trove of more than 2,500 exotic jazz, folk, ceremonial and indigenous musical instruments, including bizarre hybrids such as the Saxotrumpet and a must-be-seen-to-be-believed soprano slide saxophone. The Sheldon... Read more about this event >>

The art of being a woman goes beyond having a seemingly balanced life both in and out the home. Reimagining Femmage, the new exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre, is built around the feminist art movement "femmage" -- collage-style work created by women that focuses on both the inner life and the outward impression. Juried by Contemporary Art Museum's Lisa Melandri, the show includes work by 47... Read more about this event >>

If you think of Fulton, it's most likely in connection to the famous speech Winston Churchill delivered at Westminster College in 1946. But there's more. Outsider artist star Jesse Howard is also associated with Fulton. Howard was a self-taught artist and an earnest evangelist, and from such ingredients a strange brew will always ferment. A new exhibition, Thy Kingdom Come, showcases Howard's... Read more about this event >>

Fashions in art, like fashions in anything, are fickle -- so it's usually best to pay them no mind. For instance, in John Constable's lifetime he was openly ridiculed for the perceived aesthetic faux pas of painting humble rural scenes. A similar dismal misapprehension of real talent befell Thomas Cole, titan of unrepentant landscape studies and the founder of the Hudson River School. Thomas... Read more about this event >>

Everything on display at Duane Reed Gallery is tattered, torn and broken. But that's by design -- the group exhibition Breaks, Seams and Boundaries explores the application of carefully controlled forces to transform familiar artistic forms into something new and surprising. The graceful curve of Steven Young Lee's Moon Jar with Octopi erupts outward in shards on one side, apparently rent by... Read more about this event >>

American artist Vija Celmins displays her love of the natural world (the night sky, the desert floor, the ocean) in her magnificently dense drawings. By honing in on a small corner of these natural spaces and meticulously rendering them in a modest scale Celmins turns reality into an impossibility, making real world scenery both unreal and overwhelming. Celmins' purposeful mark making breaks... Read more about this event >>

George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia but made his name here in St. Louis. The painter earned a living from his portraits (and various political jobs, such as serving as the State Treasurer), but it's his paintings of frontier life on the river that secured his lasting fame. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum,... Read more about this event >>

To walk into the Hideaway is to enter a place that seems frozen in time, where the dozen or so seats around the piano are packed with your grandparents' friends, decked out in chunky jewelry and tilted fedora hats. Ostensibly, they're here to listen to Mark Dew play — he's here Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights — but you're just as likely to hear one of those... Read more about this event >>

Tell the winter doldrums adios by escaping to the Tropical Conservatory at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Every day throughout March, you can see the giant, gorgeous, brilliantly blue morpho butterflies. These winged lovelies visit every year as part of March Morpho Mania. Stroll among thousands of these butterflies, as they dart and dive and perhaps, if you're lucky, alight on your... Read more about this event >>

The Winslows are an upstanding, upper-class English family shaken by a seemingly minor scandal: Youngest son Ronnie has been expelled from naval college for stealing five pounds. Ronnie swears his innocence, and his father Arthur believes him; so much so that he fights for Ronnie's right to a fair trial by hiring a famous barrister to represent Ronnie against the British Admiralty. While his... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

Let's pick an especially isolated, remote country such as Bhutan and ask ourselves what we know about it. Zilch, comes the response. Through Regina DeLuise's stunning photography we can at least get acquainted. Vast Bhutan: Images from the Phenomenal World showcases photos DeLuise took on a visit to the landlocked Asian nation in 2010. Bhutan is completely immersed in Buddhist history and... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

The ever-popular Phantom of the Opera returns to St. Louis in an extravagantly updated production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved classic about a lovelorn, mutilated musical genius who lurks beneath the Paris Opera. As this Phantom's passion deepens, he descends further into madness with tragic results. Although the "Music of the Night" remains relatively the same, Cameron Mackintosh's... Read more about this event >>

New York may be the epicenter of the contemporary American art scene, but that doesn't mean it's the only place artists are at work today. Philadelphia Freedom: A Survey of Abstract Painting Today from the City of Brotherly Love, the new show at Philip Slein Gallery, features work by five painters from cheesesteak-ylvania. Each has their own approach to the abstract school. Tim McFarlane uses... Read more about this event >>

Fashions in art, like fashions in anything, are fickle -- so it's usually best to pay them no mind. For instance, in John Constable's lifetime he was openly ridiculed for the perceived aesthetic faux pas of painting humble rural scenes. A similar dismal misapprehension of real talent befell Thomas Cole, titan of unrepentant landscape studies and the founder of the Hudson River School. Thomas... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

Everything on display at Duane Reed Gallery is tattered, torn and broken. But that's by design -- the group exhibition Breaks, Seams and Boundaries explores the application of carefully controlled forces to transform familiar artistic forms into something new and surprising. The graceful curve of Steven Young Lee's Moon Jar with Octopi erupts outward in shards on one side, apparently rent by... Read more about this event >>

Tell the winter doldrums adios by escaping to the Tropical Conservatory at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Every day throughout March, you can see the giant, gorgeous, brilliantly blue morpho butterflies. These winged lovelies visit every year as part of March Morpho Mania. Stroll among thousands of these butterflies, as they dart and dive and perhaps, if you're lucky, alight on your... Read more about this event >>

The art of being a woman goes beyond having a seemingly balanced life both in and out the home. Reimagining Femmage, the new exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre, is built around the feminist art movement "femmage" -- collage-style work created by women that focuses on both the inner life and the outward impression. Juried by Contemporary Art Museum's Lisa Melandri, the show includes work by 47... Read more about this event >>

For more than two decades, The Jerry Springer Show has been a source of controversy in America, but nothing compares to the response it got in England. Jerry Springer: The Opera played across the United Kingdom to rave reviews and unprecedented protests, culminating in a BBC 2 airing that elicited an incredible 55,000 complaints. The musical, which is wall-to-wall singing and dancing, begins... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

American artist Vija Celmins displays her love of the natural world (the night sky, the desert floor, the ocean) in her magnificently dense drawings. By honing in on a small corner of these natural spaces and meticulously rendering them in a modest scale Celmins turns reality into an impossibility, making real world scenery both unreal and overwhelming. Celmins' purposeful mark making breaks... Read more about this event >>

The Winslows are an upstanding, upper-class English family shaken by a seemingly minor scandal: Youngest son Ronnie has been expelled from naval college for stealing five pounds. Ronnie swears his innocence, and his father Arthur believes him; so much so that he fights for Ronnie's right to a fair trial by hiring a famous barrister to represent Ronnie against the British Admiralty. While his... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>

Under the direction of William N. Eisendrath, Jr., the Washington University Gallery of Art acquired a treasure trove of seminal modern work from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse in the '60s. Eisendrath is credited with introducing this brave, bold generation of abstract artists to the contemporary St. Louis art scene, and the museum even went on to sponsor... Read more about this event >>

To walk into the Hideaway is to enter a place that seems frozen in time, where the dozen or so seats around the piano are packed with your grandparents' friends, decked out in chunky jewelry and tilted fedora hats. Ostensibly, they're here to listen to Mark Dew play — he's here Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights — but you're just as likely to hear one of those... Read more about this event >>

If you think of Fulton, it's most likely in connection to the famous speech Winston Churchill delivered at Westminster College in 1946. But there's more. Outsider artist star Jesse Howard is also associated with Fulton. Howard was a self-taught artist and an earnest evangelist, and from such ingredients a strange brew will always ferment. A new exhibition, Thy Kingdom Come, showcases Howard's... Read more about this event >>

The ever-popular Phantom of the Opera returns to St. Louis in an extravagantly updated production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved classic about a lovelorn, mutilated musical genius who lurks beneath the Paris Opera. As this Phantom's passion deepens, he descends further into madness with tragic results. Although the "Music of the Night" remains relatively the same, Cameron Mackintosh's... Read more about this event >>

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries' long-standing reputation for championing the visual and performing arts in St. Louis has prompted an awe-inspiring donation -- a treasure trove of more than 2,500 exotic jazz, folk, ceremonial and indigenous musical instruments, including bizarre hybrids such as the Saxotrumpet and a must-be-seen-to-be-believed soprano slide saxophone. The Sheldon... Read more about this event >>

Let's pick an especially isolated, remote country such as Bhutan and ask ourselves what we know about it. Zilch, comes the response. Through Regina DeLuise's stunning photography we can at least get acquainted. Vast Bhutan: Images from the Phenomenal World showcases photos DeLuise took on a visit to the landlocked Asian nation in 2010. Bhutan is completely immersed in Buddhist history and... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia but made his name here in St. Louis. The painter earned a living from his portraits (and various political jobs, such as serving as the State Treasurer), but it's his paintings of frontier life on the river that secured his lasting fame. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum,... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

To walk into the Hideaway is to enter a place that seems frozen in time, where the dozen or so seats around the piano are packed with your grandparents' friends, decked out in chunky jewelry and tilted fedora hats. Ostensibly, they're here to listen to Mark Dew play — he's here Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights — but you're just as likely to hear one of those... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

Fashions in art, like fashions in anything, are fickle -- so it's usually best to pay them no mind. For instance, in John Constable's lifetime he was openly ridiculed for the perceived aesthetic faux pas of painting humble rural scenes. A similar dismal misapprehension of real talent befell Thomas Cole, titan of unrepentant landscape studies and the founder of the Hudson River School. Thomas... Read more about this event >>

Under the direction of William N. Eisendrath, Jr., the Washington University Gallery of Art acquired a treasure trove of seminal modern work from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse in the '60s. Eisendrath is credited with introducing this brave, bold generation of abstract artists to the contemporary St. Louis art scene, and the museum even went on to sponsor... Read more about this event >>

Tell the winter doldrums adios by escaping to the Tropical Conservatory at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House. Every day throughout March, you can see the giant, gorgeous, brilliantly blue morpho butterflies. These winged lovelies visit every year as part of March Morpho Mania. Stroll among thousands of these butterflies, as they dart and dive and perhaps, if you're lucky, alight on your... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>

George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia but made his name here in St. Louis. The painter earned a living from his portraits (and various political jobs, such as serving as the State Treasurer), but it's his paintings of frontier life on the river that secured his lasting fame. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum,... Read more about this event >>

The art of being a woman goes beyond having a seemingly balanced life both in and out the home. Reimagining Femmage, the new exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre, is built around the feminist art movement "femmage" -- collage-style work created by women that focuses on both the inner life and the outward impression. Juried by Contemporary Art Museum's Lisa Melandri, the show includes work by 47... Read more about this event >>

One of the world's most beautiful, enduring children's stories comes to life as the COCA Theatre Company presents The Little Prince. Adapted from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's best-selling book, this musical performance stars Edwardsville native (and now New York-based actor and singer-songwriter) Michael Beatty as the Aviator and St. Louisan Michael Harp as the titular wee ruler. The whole... Read more about this event >>

The Winslows are an upstanding, upper-class English family shaken by a seemingly minor scandal: Youngest son Ronnie has been expelled from naval college for stealing five pounds. Ronnie swears his innocence, and his father Arthur believes him; so much so that he fights for Ronnie's right to a fair trial by hiring a famous barrister to represent Ronnie against the British Admiralty. While his... Read more about this event >>

American artist Vija Celmins displays her love of the natural world (the night sky, the desert floor, the ocean) in her magnificently dense drawings. By honing in on a small corner of these natural spaces and meticulously rendering them in a modest scale Celmins turns reality into an impossibility, making real world scenery both unreal and overwhelming. Celmins' purposeful mark making breaks... Read more about this event >>

The ever-popular Phantom of the Opera returns to St. Louis in an extravagantly updated production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved classic about a lovelorn, mutilated musical genius who lurks beneath the Paris Opera. As this Phantom's passion deepens, he descends further into madness with tragic results. Although the "Music of the Night" remains relatively the same, Cameron Mackintosh's... Read more about this event >>

Spend five minutes in Missouri and you'll figure out how heavily German this state is. It's evident in the multiplicity of German family and town names (Hermann ring a bell?), the resonant traditions of winemaking in our river valleys and brewing beer in our cities. But most of us probably don't know how key a role a certain group of German immigrants played in antebellum- and Civil War-era... Read more about this event >>

Scientists spent a lot of time and money determining that a key difference between the male and female of the human species is the Y chromosome -- generally speaking, men have it, women don't. The biological difference between men and women could have been divined much quicker and cheaper by simply playing a Three Stooges short -- most men crowd closer when the knuckleheads appear, while most... Read more about this event >>

There are far too few venues for violinists, pianists and cellists to perform in public, outside of massive symphony orchestras. This creates quite the dilemma for amateur musicians who want to perform chamber music, or who simply prefer playing in a more intimate and less formal atmosphere. There's always the option to busk, of course, but that requires a thicker skin and a completely... Read more about this event >>

Walk or drive past the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis at night and you're likely to see something strangely beautiful flickering across its austere facade. This is the work of Milan-born installation artist Marco Brambilla. Part of the museum's series Street Views, Brambilla's Materialization/De-Materialization exemplifies the artist's approach to clever visual overload. In the video... Read more about this event >>

It's pretty much a given that most of us spend too many hours glued to screens and electronic media and insufficient time outdoors. But for all the myriad miraculous things waiting to be observed and studied out there in the natural world, there are just as many that are invisible to us, no matter how receptive our senses might be. But this time you can thank technology for opening up entire... Read more about this event >>

Under the direction of William N. Eisendrath, Jr., the Washington University Gallery of Art acquired a treasure trove of seminal modern work from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse in the '60s. Eisendrath is credited with introducing this brave, bold generation of abstract artists to the contemporary St. Louis art scene, and the museum even went on to sponsor... Read more about this event >>

From Best Jam Band St. Louis 2012: When the average citizen thinks of jam bands, names like Phish and Widespread Panic come to mind. But Led Zeppelin jammed too, and Stone Sugar Shakedown's blues-steeped explorations tend to resemble the latter. The band sounds and looks transplanted from the 1970s, with hints of the Blues Brothers and Funkadelic, and it doesn't hurt that singer Tracy Gladden... Read more about this event >>

The dome of the St. Louis Science Center's OMNIMAX theater is five stories high and 79 feet in diameter -- that's a great deal of space to fill with images. But a full-grown humpback whale is 50 feet long and weighs 48 tons, so they'll use all of it. Humpback Whales, the new IMAX film from MacGillivray Freeman Films, takes you undersea from Alaska to Hawaii to Tonga as you swim with these... Read more about this event >>